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why is everything opposite for me
My wife had an outpatients appointment today and I had to wait outside in the freezing cold to wait for the cab to arrive. Standing in the snow I would normally feel terrible. It was lightly sleeting and under normal angina situations, this would make my symptoms really bad, especially breathing a cold wind. However, I felt great, almost athletic. I tried walking fast up a steep hill that led to a car park and it was effortless, just like I had a new heart. I could have run up that hill with no problem. As soon as I got home, into the warm, my angina started to return with slight exertion.
These swap over of symptoms have occurred since my LAD was opened and warm air used to make me feel comfortable. Isn't this all back to front with angina symptoms? Shouldn't I be feeling awful when it's cold and better when it's warm? Is there more oxygen in colder air? and damp air definitely makes me feel great. If I go for a walk in the rain I don't experience angina at all. Are these clues I should tell my Cardiologist or will he think I'm nuts?
These swap over of symptoms have occurred since my LAD was opened and warm air used to make me feel comfortable. Isn't this all back to front with angina symptoms? Shouldn't I be feeling awful when it's cold and better when it's warm? Is there more oxygen in colder air? and damp air definitely makes me feel great. If I go for a walk in the rain I don't experience angina at all. Are these clues I should tell my Cardiologist or will he think I'm nuts?
lol. perhaps you are right because I've always prefered working outdoors and the cold weather never affected me until I had angina. It's nice to feel that air again. Not all brits are like that, I see many wrapped up like eskimos and shivering whereas I have a thin coat over a t-shirt and feel nice and warm. I do love my tea though.
Yes, you should feel lousy in cold weather, it makes all the blood vessels constrict, However, there is a very easy answer.
You're a Brit. Brits are the toughest people I have ever met. I was in the HVAC business, and would on many occasions have to tell people in the middle of winter that their heating systems were shot, and it would be a couple of days before we could replace it. When those folks were from England, the response was always the same... "No problem, we will just bundle up and remember the 1940's, drink lots of tea, we will be just fine". You simply have inherited those WWII genes!
You're a Brit. Brits are the toughest people I have ever met. I was in the HVAC business, and would on many occasions have to tell people in the middle of winter that their heating systems were shot, and it would be a couple of days before we could replace it. When those folks were from England, the response was always the same... "No problem, we will just bundle up and remember the 1940's, drink lots of tea, we will be just fine". You simply have inherited those WWII genes!
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